Foldover

Abstract MSG procedural art image generated via directed evolution in the Studio Artist evolution editor.

Plexiglass

Semi-transparent vector region fill as brush paint with integrated cast shadow lighting.

Stacked Fan-Fold Paper

Working on some new cast shadow lighting controls for vector paint presets in the Studio Artist paint synthesizer.

Shadow Bug (or feature?)

Grabbed this image while testing some new region fill as brush shadow code that includes a code bug. I will leave it to the observant viewer to figure out what the bug is. Or is the bug actually a feature?

Gradient Lighted Text

Another experiment with a text brush paint preset and a multi-octave gradient lighting PASeq preset for post processing.

Lighted Text

Experiment with a simple paint preset that paints random colored single text characters. Applied some cast shadow lighting with a PASeq preset for post processing.

Dual Mixture Abstraction

Working on some procedural art MSG presets that generate 2 different abstract color images in different internal image streams, and then use a third black and white abstract image to spatially modulate between the 2 different abstract color images to generate the final output image. Knowing that, if you look at the above image you can see that process taking place.

There's also a little cast shadow lighting post processing using one of the PASeq preset i recently posted to the Studio Artist user forum

Night to Day

More internal spatial modulation used to generate variation in procedural artwork. Another MSG swap evolution experiment.

Semi-Structured Layout

Working on adding some new MSG lighting features. This is also using spatial modulation to combine together 2 different procedural images into the final output. All a part of the MSG preset.

Photo Grinder

MSG preset that slices and dices a source image. With some additional cast shadow lighting not built into the MSG processor.

Vortex

Testing some new spiral-lateral MSG features.

Regret

Some cast shadow lighting added to a space-filling curve based MSG preset generated in the Evolution Editor.

Moonlight Ripple

Two stacked truchet processors with some added cast shadow lighting. And a little bit of modulated interactive warp.

Apollonian Structure

More tests while adding cast shadow lighting options to some MSG processors that generate flat regions. This is a stack of 2 different processors that generate shapes arranged with apollonian packing sampling.

Sea Weed

Working on adding some built-in cast shadow lighting to the various 3C Abstract MSG processors in Studio Artist.

Raised Blades

Another MSG procedural image that incorporates cast shadow lighting. This one started with yesterdays post in the Evolution Editor followed by some Add and Swap evolution.

Raised Apollonian Widget

MSG preset processed with cast shadow lighting PASeq preset. I made a new lighting PASeq that puts the darker objects on top rather than the lighter ones like the previous posts. The MSG preset is using some new features associated with apollonian close-packed sampling. The sampling in the MSG preset is also source image modulated. And there's some TSP optimization in there as well.

Seismic ShockWave

Procedural MSG image with a little added shadow lighting processing.

Shadows as Structure

Adaptive Block regionization with a solid black cast shadow generated by using repeated path applications and associated modulators to generate the cast shadow. The shadows ends up looking pretty structured with this kind of rectangular repetitive structuring. It's interesting, because if you have irregular shaded regions they look raised with this kind of paint preset, but not when they are structured this way.

Color Randomized Spread

Another paint synthesizer experiment. This also incorporates a scale modulated warp as a post-processing step.

Blue

Another paint synthesizer experiment generated while working on some new feature enhancements.

Frothy

This came out of some work focused on enhancing the paint synthesizer.

Yellow

Grabbed this image during a gallery show session. Randomized vectorizer gallery show technique along with surprise me auto-masking turned on.

Abstract Raised Relief

Another MSG abstract procedural image that also incorporates some cast shadow lighting to give it more of a 3D raised relief look.

Violet Attractor

Attractor generated using procedural MSG. This was generated during a swap and mutate directed evolution session in the Evolution Editor.

Which Direction

Another MSG directed evolution experiment that also incorporates some cast shadow lighting.

Fun with Mutation

Playing around in the evolution editor in Studio Artist. Added a little bit of shadow lighting via manual selection after the fact. That got me thinking about adding some cast shadow lighting to MSG as a new processor.

Soft Shadow Regions

Soft shadow lighting effect generated in the paint synthesizer. Using path start regionization with the region fill as brush pen mode. Using path application repeat to generate the offset shadows.

Balloon Head

Fine tuning some new vectorizer vector shadow effects.

Raised Relief Abstraction

More experiments with multi-level lighting effects. This started out with a MSG procedural abstraction (black and white quantized random procedural texture). That was then colorized using Flat Region Colorize ip op using the source image for coloring. Then i used one of the recent multi-level lighting PASeq presets i posed to the Studio Artist user forum recently to add the shadow lighting effect.

Tile Block Relief Wall

Trying out some shadow lighting ideas on a mosaic block image generated using the paint synthesizer.

Raised Relief

Raised lighting effect applied to a Smart Contrast ip op effect.